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Snake cookie

My mom lived in Dallas for a couple of years and being a very sociable person, she joined the newcomer’s club, made friends with all of the neighbors, and pretty soon had a fully booked social calendar with bridge parties, luncheons, museum visits and the like. This is the type of communal cookie I would [...]
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Amardeen cake

Amardeen is a beloved snack for every kid raised in the Near-East; Amardeen is a sheet of apricot paste. The apricots are grown in the area of the Ghouta, near Damascus in Syria.  Amardeen is tangy, sweet and has an intense apricot flavor. This is a basic sponge cake with an apricot filling made out [...]
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Amardeen

  Just what is amardeen? For a lot of us who grew up in the Near East, it was an after-school treat; an extra-tangy, intensely flavored apricot leather that we would suck on for as long as possible (to make the pleasure last). It is a large sheet of apricot paste made from apricots that [...]
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